Lives in
Tucson desert west of town, United States
Works as aFreelance Artist
Joined onJun 17, 2007
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To go out and have fun with life, and to be as naked as the law allows.. Have been a member much longer than posted here.. I built a new computer, ASUS mobo M2N32-SLI Deluxe WiFi, 4Gb duel channel 800Mhz ram, w/AMD Athlon 64X Dual Core 6000+ CPU and started all over again. Picked up my first 'serious' 35mm camera 1964 a range finder. 1st SLR - 1967 - Pratica Nova 1b - still have it 2nd SLR - Miranda Sensorex - still have it First Nikon - 1972 - Still have it. Army base (Germany) photographer and Stars n Stripes Military newspaper photographer 1970/1972. Sales - Camera equipment - Quarry Photo - Ann Arbor, Michigan. 1974/76. Sales - Camera equipment - Super City - Burton, Michigan. Freelance Photography - Weddings - graduations - people - places - things - etc.. early 70's to today still..! Moved to Tucson, AZ 1986 Sales - Photographic and digital equipment - NuArt Photo Sales - Photographic and digital equipment - Sunset Photo Personal Equipment - Nikon F - 2 Nikon F2 - 1 Nikon F3 - 2 Nikon FE - 1 Nikon FM - 2 Lenses - far to many to list but all Nikkors, 16mm to 500mm. 4x5 - 3 - 2 folding field models and 1 rail studio model Schneider lenses 90mm wide to 360mm telephoto. Bronica S2a 6x6 SLR - sold Pentax 6x7 w/ many lenses - sold 1st high end digital - Fuji S-1 Pro D-SLR 1999 - sold body 2nd D-SLR Fuji S-2 - 2000 - have 3rd D-SLR Fuji S-3 IRUV 2006 - have 4th D-SLR Fuji S-5 - 2007 have AF lenses, many (but I now enjoy using my 'old' manual AI'ed lenses on the S-5) 16mm AF f/2.8 18~35 AF 24~120 AF non IS 18~200 AF IS ED IF 70~300 AF 50 1.8 AF 60 2.8 AF Macro 120 Medical Nikkor Minolta Scan Multi Pro film scanner - 16mm to 6x9 film Epson 1640SU Photo w/TMA head for film up to 4x5 - sold Epson V750 Pro Photo - film formats up to 8x10 Epson 7600 24' wide format 7 color printer - in Giclee Complete wet darkroom w/Beseler 23C w/color head Durst Laborator 1000 w/450 color head - 4x5 Kreonite CPC16 - 16'' color paper processor Ilford CAP 40 16'' wide Cibachrome processor now used for Ilford BnW papers All darkroom equipment in storage or sold. Pure digital now. 2 - 500 watt/second studio flash units w/light boxes - umbrellas - barn doors, etc.. by InterFit A gazillion filters, cables, tripods, small camera mounted strobes and 'things'.... and more....!